Periodontitis And Myocardial Infarction: A Shared Genetic Predisposition
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 01:22
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A mutual epidemiological relationship between aggressive periodontitis and myocardial infarction has already been shown in the past. Scientists have now presented the first evidence of a shared genetic variant on chromosome 9, which maps to a genetic region that codes for the "antisense RNA" Anril.